My [New Refrigerator]({{ <relref “old-blog-posts/2004/refrigerators.md”>}}) arrived at about 8:30 on Saturday morning. We took out all of the packing materials, hooked up the water and electricity supplies, and plugged it in. It is a thing of beauty!

It took about 3 hours for the freezer temperature to drop to -15%deg;C and a few hours longer for the fridge compartment to cool to about 2.5°C. I went out last night and loaded up on fresh food again; now we have a fridge that looks just like the pictures you see in the advertisments…